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Mobile Communications ELE 4233 LO2: Cellular Systems - Tutorial
Mobile Communications
ELE 4233
LO2: Cellular Systems- Tutorial
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Cellular concept
1. Complete the following cell numbering, for user X shown, clearly indicate the
neighboring co-channel cells that are considered sources of interference.
a.
b.
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c.
d.
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2. Complete the following for a cluster of 7, clearly show that there are six first-tier cells
which share the same frequency set.
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Cellular System Capacity

3. If a total of 33MHz is allocated for a cellular system which uses 25 kHz full duplex
channels, determine the number of channels available per cell for 4 cell reuse. If the
cluster is replicated 9 times, what is the total capacity of the system?
4. If a total of 33MHz is allocated for a cellular system which uses 25kHz half duplex
channels, determine the number of channels available per cell for 7 cell reuse If the
cluster is replicated 5 times, what is the total capacity of the system?
5. A certain cellular system uses 100 voice channels per cell, and each voice channel is 50
kHz full duplex. If the system uses a 4 cell reuse pattern (cluster size of 4), determine
a. The number of channels in a cluster?
b. The total number of users if the cluster is repeated 5 times?
c. The total bandwidth allocated for the system?
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6. A cellular system has a capacity of 2000 channels (users), if the system uses a BW of
20MHz, and for N=4, and the cluster is replicated 5 times. What is the bandwidth of one
full duplex voice channel?
7. A certain cellular system uses 75 voice channels per cell, and each half duplex voice
channel is 50 kHz. If the system uses a cluster size of 4, and the system has 21 cells.
What is the total bandwidth allocated for the system?
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8. A total of 33 MHz bandwidth is allocated to a particular cellular phone system. If the half
duplex voice/control channel bandwidth is 25 KHz. Find the total number of channels
available per cell. If 1 MHz out of the total allocated bandwidth is used for control
channels, and each cell requires 1 control channel per cell. Determine an equitable
distribution of the control and voice channels in each cell in case of the following
frequency-reuse plan.
a. 7-cell frequency reuse
b. 13- cell frequency reuse
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9. A certain city has an area of 1300 square km, is covered by a cellular system If each cell
has a radius of 4.67 km and the city has been allocated 40MHz spectrum and 50 kHz full
duplex voice channels, you may assume that the propagation constant n is equal to 2 ,
and there are six interfering channels (IC).
For 7 and 13 cell reuse pattern determine:

a. The total number of cells [area of hexagon = R2 2.589 ]
b. The number of channels per cell
c. The total number of channels in the system.
d. Reuse Factor and SIR
e. Which system offers higher capacity?
f. Which system offers less interference?
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10. A newly developed town with an area of 300km 2 has been allocated 40MHz for its mobile
telephony system and 100 kHz full duplex for each voice channel. When the system is
deployed using a cluster size N= 4, 2000 channels were available for use in the system.
a. Determine the cell radius
b. If the system is redesigned using a cluster size of 7 to offer the same number
of channels, determine the new cell radius.
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Interference & Co-Channel Interference
11. In a cellular system, the minimum signal-to co-channel-interference ratio required to

achieve a satisfactory channel performance is 15 dB. What is the cluster size? If the path
loss exponent n is (a) n= 3 (b) n= 4. Assumers there are six interfering channels in the
first tier.
12. If in the previous question three and six sectors are used determine the new SIR ?
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13. A certain cell in a mobile telecommunication system has a radius R of 10km and the reuse
distance D is 34.6km, determine the cluster size and the SIR assuming that the
propagation constant n is equal 2 and there are six interfering channels.
14. A mobile user is located near the center of base station (3X), if the received signal from
base station 3A at the mobile is -90dBm, and the received signal from 3B is -85dBm
and from 3C is -87dBm. If the mobile is logged into 3X and the received signal strength
is -70dBm. Determine the SIR at the mobile.
.
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15. In certain cellular system the transmitted power from each base station is 50dBm. To
increase the capacity to cope with the increased traffic it is decided to split the cells into
half. What is the new transmitted power from each base station, you may assume that in
urban area the propagation loss n is equal to 4.
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Handoff & Channel Assignment
16. What is handoff? What is the main difference between NCHO & MAHO strategies?
17. If the level of the received signal at the boundary of BS1 at point A is -100dBm and the
minimum useable signal is -120dBm.
a. What is the handoff margin Δ?
b. What is the expected received signal level at point B in BS2?
c. If typical values of Δ is on the order of 10dB? What is the consequence of using
the handoff margin in (a)?
18. In a given cellular system the handoff margin Δ is selected as 20dB and the minimum
useable signal is -115dBm, what is the handoff level in this system?
19. What is the main difference between fixed channel assignment and dynamic channel
assignment?
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Grade of service
20. Call established at 4 am between a central computer and a data terminal. Assuming a
continuous connection and data transferred at 60 kbit/s what is the traffic if the call is
terminated at 5 am , or 5.30am or 12am?
21. A group of 20 subscribers generate 60 calls with an average holding time of 4 minutes,
what is the average traffic per subscriber?
22. How many users can be supported for 0.5% blocking probability for the following umber
of trunked channels in a blocked calls clear system? (a) 5, (c) 10, (d) 20, (e) 100. Assume
each user generate 0.2 Erlangs of traffic.
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23. In a town with 120000 population. If the cellular system has 1% GOS and each user
averages 2 calls/ hour at an average call duration of 3 min. If the cellular system uses 200
cells and number of channels per cell is 20, find number of users that can be supported.
Find the percentage market penetration.
24. A, B, and C provide cellular services in an urban area with 2 million residents. The (no.
of cells, no. channels/cell) for the three providers are (394,19), (98,57) and (49,100). Find
the number of users that can be supported at 2% blocking if each user averages two
calls/hour at average call duration of 3 min. Find the percentage market penetration for
each provider.
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GOS & Capacity

25. Given a city area: 1300 Km 2, with 7-cell reuse pattern, cell radius=4 Km and frequency
spectrum: 40MHz with 60 kHz duplex channel bandwidth. Assume GOS=2% for an
Erlang B system, if the offered traffic per user is 0.03 Erlangs, find
a. the no. of cells in the service area
b. the no. of channels per cell
c. traffic intensity of each cell
d. the maximum carried traffic
e. the total no. of users can be served for the GOS
f. the no. of mobiles per unique channel
g. the theoretical maximum no. of users that could be served at one time by the
system.
Recall that the area of hexagon = R2 x 2.589.
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26. A cellular system uses half duplex voice channel of 25 kHz and is made of two
subsystems A and B. Subsystem A uses N = 4, 16 cells and each cell has 35 ch/cell.
Subsystem B uses N =7, and has 28 cells. Find the total number of users if each user in
subsystem A generates 0.05 Erlang, and subsystem B generates 0.025 Erlang and a GOS
of 2% is used.
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Erlang B
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LO2: Cellular Systems- Tutorial

Cellular System Capacity

a. The number of channels in a cluster?

b. The total number of users if the cluster is repeated 5 times?

c. The total bandwidth allocated for the system?

For 7 and 13 cell reuse pattern determine:

Interference & Co-Channel Interference

11. In a cellular system, the minimum signal-to co-channel-interference ratio required to

Handoff & Channel Assignment

GOS & Capacity

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